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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] KDE + Time Zones + Daylight-saving-time
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2007-02-23 0:39:22
Message-ID: 200702230139.22158.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Friday 23 February 2007 01:13, Alain M. wrote:
> Kevin Krammer escreveu:
> >> I understand that "somewhere" within KDE, the timezone " São Paulo -
> >> América" is configured to copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo to
> >> /etc/localtime. So I create my configuration file like this:
> >
> > Would be interesting if this is a thing KDE does or something the
> > distributor patched into KDE.
> > Mandriva is known to do all sorts of patched without checking for side
> > effects.
>
> It would probably be a combination of both: KDE "must" have it's
> timezones stored somewhere within KDE's tree, and Mandriva has probably
> heavyly adjusted it. But it probably follows KDE's rules...

The problem is that KDE is running with your user's privileges, which should 
not allow it to copy anything into /etc unless you provide a root password.

> What should I look for?

I am not sure. Does RPM allow to query which package a file belongs to?
In this case you could check which package provides 
the  /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo file you found out gets copied.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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